Submitted Thu, 09/28/2017 – 3:01pm This week’s blog entry is from a guest writer. If you are interested in your article or blog entry being featured on the TLC blog, contact [email protected]. By: Ann Swanson, Hendrick House Food Service Growing in fall is so much easier than growing in the spring. There are usually less […]
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Freedom Farmers Recap
Over the past year, The Land Connection’s staff has chosen to spend some of our staff meeting time as a book club. Having sat through many hours of staff meetings at this office, it felt time to shake up our standard format. It was also clear in 2020 that, as a white led organization, we […]
Guest Blog: Weed Management 2018/ Student Interns
Submitted Fri, 07/20/2018 – 12:43pm This week’s blog entry is from a guest writer. If you are interested in being a guest blogger, contact [email protected]. By: Ann Swanson, Hendrick House Food Service ♪ ♫ Let’s talk about weeds bay- beee, let’s talk about you and me, let’s talk about all the bad things and the […]
Inheriting Land: Challenges and Opportunities
Submitted by Terra Brockman on Tue, 06/03/2014 – 7:59pm Like many farmland inheritors, Kris McIntosh and her sister Kathryn knew next to nothing about farm management when they took over the land that has been in their family for more than three generations.Both sisters have families and jobs some 150 miles from their central Illinois […]
Life on a Kenyan Farm
Submitted by Akshita Siddula on Mon, 03/24/2014 – 4:54pm Last fall I was interning at an international nonprofit organization in Mombasa, Kenya and staying with a host family. My family consisted of six direct siblings and two loving parents. While some of my siblings were older and lived outside of the home, the three that […]
Meet Shea Belahi, our first incubator farmer!
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Tue, 03/11/2014 – 10:12am Shea Belahi talks about vegetables the way some people talk about their fellow humans. “Each variety has a name, a story, and great flavor,” she says. “It’s easy to have people connect with their food through the history of the varieties of vegetables we grow.” She’s […]
